What do you consider to be a cool job?:

My neighbour was telling me about his daughter in newcastle today, and how she was a marine biologist and how I would probably get a long with herů >_<.

Anyway it got me thinking about how marine biology is a very trendy thing to be able to say you are working in if you're under 35. Not quite on the same level as say a astronaut or ballerina, but something that most people think of as being 'kray' despite knowing nothing about the field or what it involves.

As for the topic, I'm hoping to get into grad school working toward engineering photovoltaic cells (solar panels), and hopefully working in that field down the line. Ideally, I'd like to end up able to go to developing countries and set up things like solar-powered water pumps for wells, and small solar stations for schools and the like.

I think that'd be cool, anyway.

"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite

@Hope: Society develops by the progression of technology. Technology progresses because of advances in science - physical sciences, that is (most often, chemistry and physics). Social science tracks progression, and understands it, but it rarely actually shapes it.

If Social Science shaped progression, we'd have gotten rid of war centuries ago. Instead, we've gotten better at it. Never mind the complete lack of social scientists predicting the rise of the internet and "plugged-in" culture. Very few of them are even researching it properly, that I've seen.

@Joey: I'm a Physics major who wants to go into Materials Engineering with some interests in International Development. It's not so much that I'm dismissive as just that I am well aware where my strong points lie.

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